Shoulder-pressing means for shirt-pressing machines



y A. B. CLISSON ET AL 1,720,207

SHOULDER PRESSING MEANS FOR SHIRT PRESSING MACHINES Filed Aug. 6, 1926 ATTORNEYS RNA;

Patented July '9, 1929.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

' ALBERT B. CLISSON AND AQUILA R. BRAUN, OF SYRACUSE, NEW YORK, ASSIGNORS TO THE PROSPERITY CO. INC., OF SYRACUSE, NEW vYORK, A CORPORATION OF NEW YORK.

SHOULDER-P RESSING MEANS FOR SHIRT-PRESSIN G MACHINES.

Application filed August 6, 1926; Serial No. 127,514.

This invention relates to pressing machines, particularly pressing machlnes for pressing shirts and has for its object a par-' ticularly simple and eflicient construction, which does not add materially to the cost of machines. for ironingor pressing the shoulders of the shirt while the bosom or front of the shirt is being pressed.

The invention consists in the novel features and in the combinations and constructions hereinafter set forth and claimed.

In describing this invention reference is had to the accompanying drawings in which like characters represent corresponding parts in all the views.

Figure l is a front elevation, partly in section, of the buck of a. pressing machine pro-- vided with our invention, the contiguous portion of the machine being shown.

Figure 2 is a face view of a head for coacting with the buck shown in Figure 1.

Figure 3 is a detail fragmentary sectional View of one of the downturned flanges of the head.

Figure 4 is a fragmentary view showing the coaction of the head with its downturned flange, and the edge surface of the buck for pressing the shoulders of the shirt.

Figure 5 is a fragmentary plan view of the buck.

This invention comprises generally, edge surfaces provided on or at corners of the buck and complemental surfaces provided on the head for coacting with the corner surfaces of the buck to press the shoulders while the shirt is stretched on the buck in the usual manner with the collar hand held in the collar band holder, and its front smoothed or stretched on the buck.

1 designates the buck.

2 the head movable toward and from the buck, the buck 1 being mounted upon a suitable frame 3, and. the head 2 being carried in any well known manner to move toward and from the buck, and being actuated in any well known manner.

As the construction and operation of the convenitonal pressing machine, such as are 'used in laundries is well known, further description is thought to be unnecessary, particularly as full description would have nothing to a complete understanding of the present invention.

The buck 1 and head 2 are rectangular in the buck, the inclined corner edge surfaces being preferably formed convex in cross section as at 4. The buck 1 is also formed with a neck band holder or clamp not shown. Any form of neck band clamp may be used and as neck band holders are well known and understood bythose skilled in the art, further description is thought to be unnecessary.

The head 2 is also formed rectangular in general form, and also with a. cut out 6 forming a clearance for that portion of the neck band holder, which overlies the buck. The head is formed at its corners corresponding to the corners of the. buck over which the shoulders of the shirt are stretched, with depending flanges 7 having concave surfaces 8 complemental to the convex surfaces 4 of the buck 1. The ironing face of both the buck and head are flat.

In operation, the shirt is stretched on'the rectangular buck with its collar hand held by the collar band holder not shown, and its shoulder portions overlying the corner surfaces 4 of the buck. This general way of arranging shirts for pressing forms no part of this invention and the general operation of such a shirt pressing machine is well known. After the shirt has been so arranged, the head is brought down on the buck to press the front of the shirt and in so doing, the shoulders 8 of the flanges 7 coact with the edge surfaces 4 to press the shoulders of the shirt at the same timethat the bosom is being pressed.

This invention is particularly advantageous in that it not only provides a way for ironing the shoulders of the shirt while the bosom is being pressed, but also a construction which does not add particularly to the cost of the ordinary shirt pressing machine.

lVhat we claim is 1. In a shirt ressing machine, the combination of a buc having surfacesat its corners extending downwardly from the top surface of the buck over which surfaces the shoulders of the shirt are stretched, and a head for coacting with the buck having downturned flanges at the corners thereof 1 -the flanges being formed with downwardly extending surfaces complemental to the corner surfaces of the buck.

2. In a shirt pressing machine the combination of a buck, having convex surfaces at its corners extending downwardly from the top surface of the buck over which convex surfaces the shoulders of the shirt are.

stretched, and a head for coacting with the buck having downturned flanges atits corners opposed to said corner surfaces of the buck and extending downwardly from the lower surface of the head, the flanges being formed with concave surfaces complemental to the convex corner surfaces of the buck.

In testimony whereof, we have hereunto signed our names at Syracuse, in the county of Onondaga, and State of New York, this 28th day of July, 1926.

ALBERT B. 'CLISSON. AQUILA R. BRAUN. 

